Zip output formatting

Question

I'm learning zip and I have run into something I cannot figure out in man zip. When I run zip -r $folder $folder it will correctly zip all contents but the zip contents is as follows:

zip
|-folder
  |--files
  |--files

That is annoying to me and I wanted the zip outcome to be:

zip
|-files
|-files

Suggestions on being able to create a zip file with the folder name and all contents?

Answer 1

Not directly through zip, but (cd test && zip -r ../test.zip *) should do.

Edit: I do not know of an option in zip which allows to the equivalent of tar -cf test.tar -C test . (which does exactly what you want).

Answer 2

zip -rj $folder $folder

Will remove directories when adding files to the archive. with info-zip.

Answer 3

I realized what I forgot when I asked a friend. In the loop I had set a global variable for the location. In the for loop I forgot to add cd $folder before the zip process which caused it to zip the folder and the contents.